Shooting victim asks for random acts of kindness

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A Dallas man was shot in the back while driving home from an Oak Cliff store Monday night.

Longtime Oak Cliff resident Danny Hunter says he was roughly a block from his home at the intersection of Linfield and Vandervort Drive in East Oak Cliff when shots rang out.

He says he had turned onto his street and cars were parked on both sides of the street.

One had it's door open.

Hunter says he slowed down to squeeze by and bullets started flying.

Bullets tore through his vehicle, sending fragments into his back.

He says doctors left the fragments in his body because they are so close to his spine and other vital organs.

Hunter says he has no idea who fired the shots or why, but he doesn't want this random act of violence to take root.

He's asking family and friends to counter that violence with a random act of kindness.

"You have to practice transforming negativity.  I was born poor, black, in the South on Friday the 13th! Right? So, I've been transforming negativity for a longtime," said Hunter.

"You know getting shot, God let me live, so he's got something for me to do! That's what he's telling me. I got something for you to do Jr!"

Hunter says he did had a dash camera on his van and he says detectives took the camera, but it's clear if they were able to get anything of value to help in the investigation.